[HN Gopher] Tradle
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Tradle
Author : tantalor
Score : 255 points
Date : 2022-03-10 18:57 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| user- wrote:
| #Tradle #4 6/6
|
| https://oec.world/en/tradle
|
| Sharing output is kinda misleading, I thought it would share the
| %s and direction.
| Laforet wrote:
| Interesting, who knows the top export of Macedonia are
| centrifuges?
| joshstrange wrote:
| I might consider adding whatever the attribute is this week (I
| know it's changed over the years) to prevent auto-complete. My
| 1Password extension keeps trying to fill in my address on the
| guessing field.
|
| EDIT: Editing the page with some of the ways to disable
| autocomplete [0] don't seem to be working but I'm not sure if
| that's because 1Password binds at page load and doesn't care what
| I change using DevTools. In the end this is clearly 1Password's
| problem [0] but I sympathize with them even as I am negatively
| affected by it. If they had an attribute (like lastpass) we all
| know the worst websites/offenders on the planet (banks, intranet
| sites, most financial institutions, most site asking for
| routing/account numbers, etc) would abuse the hell out of it.
| It's bad enough when they try to prevent copy/pasting in. I do
| think they should at least provide a way to blacklist sites where
| you don't want to use 1Password.
|
| [0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/51686510/1072106
|
| [1] https://1password.community/discussion/117501/as-a-web-
| devel...
| unfocussed_mike wrote:
| I've noticed this a whole lot recently -- a whole bunch of
| sites inappropriately autocompleting irrelevant things.
| atombum wrote:
| I had to disable autocomplete recently, neither
| autocomplete="false" or autocomplete="off" worked. MDN (source
| below) indicates using "new-password, but in my experience
| passing in any random string to the autocomplete attribute did
| work.
|
| https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Securi...
| joshstrange wrote:
| Yeah, I've taken to just generating a UUID and throwing in
| there as I normally have a library to do that on my frontend
| projects.
| junon wrote:
| On mobile I tapped on the boxes to see what they were. The pop
| ups have the answer in them. Not very helpful :/
| paxys wrote:
| Same on the web
| suc_syn wrote:
| test
| renewiltord wrote:
| Text field does not clear when I submit. Chrome on Mac OS. But
| game is fun!
| druadh wrote:
| Seems like a fun guessing game, but the UI wasn't intuitive. I
| don't know if my first guess was correct, I thought for a while I
| was supposed to interact with the gray boxes, etc. I'd recommend
| having some non-dev friends play with it and provide feedback.
|
| 2nd on the giving geoguessr a run for its money. Or forming a
| strategic partnership? "Love tradle? You might like geoguessr,
| too!" etc
| ghostly_s wrote:
| Same, and I was incredibly confused by the wordle-style colored
| squares that briefly appeared. I saw them on the '?' page too,
| but no explanation of what they mean. I successfully completed
| the puzzle and still have no idea what those were.
| dwighttk wrote:
| Just a % bar for how close you are to the country
| geographically
| amilios wrote:
| Its UI is similar to Worldle (https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/), it
| might be implicitly assuming you're familiar with it already,
| in which case the "how close you are geographically" mechanism
| makes sense.
| klodolph wrote:
| I don't think familiarity with Wordle helps much. This UI is
| pretty damn confusing. You type in country names, and then a
| km value, arrow, and percentage value appears. I have no idea
| what these signify. Clicking on the boxes brings up a box
| that gives you information but I have no idea how that
| information is relevant.
| suc_syn wrote:
| this is great
| pearjuice wrote:
| When will we get a Wordle version where we guess the Wordle
| clone?
| throwesja234123 wrote:
| It said to click for more information so I clicked.
|
| Then is said related searches: What does Sweden export (2019)?
|
| I tried Sweden and got the answer.
|
| Seems like a bad UI.
| below43 wrote:
| Same here. The "more information" gave the country name away.
| petepete wrote:
| That was fun, but as others have said the UI is a bit confusing.
|
| Got it in two, thought it was Germany first and the arrow pointed
| me in the right direction.
| sdze wrote:
| Germany immediately was not an option... Volkswagen alone has
| like 100 Bln revenue per year.
| unfocussed_mike wrote:
| I actually missed the significance of the arrow entirely. It's
| obvious but I still focussed mostly on the distance.
| sarsway wrote:
| I was on the same vein, but the petroleum and fish exports
| doesn't really fit so I was thinking UK first. In retrospect
| though I wasn't considering the total trade value, it narrows
| possible countries quite a bit, could make it a bit too easy
| maybe? It's probably a lot harder though with less prominent
| countries. Why only one per day though!
| rsstack wrote:
| The distance really confused me. I got a distance of 4,353 km
| between a guess and the answer - which is what you get from
| Google, but now what you'd say from looking at a map. Border-to-
| border they are only 250 km apart.
| macintux wrote:
| Worldle uses the same calculations, center to center, else
| Russia would be just a few miles from the U.S. e.g.
| rsstack wrote:
| Russia _is_ 4 km from the US :) "Oklahoma to Krasnoyarsky
| Krai" makes sense mathematically but is a weird claim to
| make.
| [deleted]
| belkarx wrote:
| Add a link to a map maybe? instead of "more information"
| [deleted]
| yuy910616 wrote:
| Ah! I was wondering what car brand, I'm guessing it's Volvo?
| muhammadusman wrote:
| how does it work?
| spullara wrote:
| #Tradle #4 1/6
|
| https://oec.world/en/tradle
| oktwtf wrote:
| Okay, that was fun; maybe even a bit educational. I am not the
| best with geography, but I was able to guess based off the
| distance, got it on my fourth guess. It's not like I'm up to date
| on the exports of each nation or anything.
| ghaff wrote:
| All these geo games that give you distances and directions to
| the correct answer would probably reward a little study of
| distance scales and how the continents line up.
| paxys wrote:
| Does "cars 7.5%" mean 7.5% of the country's exports is cars OR
| the country supplies 7.5% of the global car market?
| spiffytech wrote:
| I think it means 7.5% of the country's exports are cars. The
| visualization is a treemap, which shows relative sizes of
| datapoints. And if you click through to https://oec.world/ and
| check a country's data, you can see on the left its exports and
| on the right global exporters of the same good. The answer
| country is not 7.5% of global exports.
|
| Other tips: the arrow is the direction the answer country is
| from your guess. The km is how far away.
| hpkuarg wrote:
| The former.
| Melatonic wrote:
| edit:
|
| Now I am really confused. It lets me guess again if I reload the
| page (no matter what I guess). I only get a few options from
| countries to pick (5 total) when I click the box to guess (a
| dropdown menu appears). After I used all of the slots it told me
| the answer was XXXXX (which was never an option for me to guess).
| No idea how this works.
| ekabod wrote:
| Full of bugs. HN users are not testers.
| qurm wrote:
| Very informative game, and Friday's is more challenging.
|
| #Tradle #5 6/6
|
| https://oec.world/en/tradle
| OGWhales wrote:
| > Friday's is more challenging
|
| Gave that one a go, here is the percentage & direction for my
| guesses: https://i.imgur.com/hGyNemi.png
| weakwire wrote:
| Nice. Easy however to guess the country if you check the code.
| Sharing the results doesn't have much value because of that. src=
| "https://oec.world/en/visualize/embed/tree_map/hs92/export/sw..."
| echelon wrote:
| Careful reading the comments here. Several posts contain today's
| answer.
| pianoben wrote:
| Got it in one :)
|
| Cars + Lumber + Oil narrowed it down pretty well.
| perlgeek wrote:
| wouldn't that also fit Brazil, for example?
| hn_user82179 wrote:
| I would've expected soybeans to be in there for Brazil. Also,
| I didn't realize Brazil exported any cars! I went off of the
| car one and tried to think of the foreign car manufacturers I
| see around here (US) and came up with Subaru/Toyota (Japan),
| Kia/Nissan (S. Korea), Audi/VW/BMW (Germany), Ferrari/Alfa
| Romeo (Italy) and Volvo (Sweden). That narrows it down quite
| a bit. Granted I'm not a big car person so I could've been
| wrong as I know there are a lot of large carmakers who don't
| export to the US.
| davidw wrote:
| Flubbed the first guess, took a better look and got it on the
| second one.
| unfocussed_mike wrote:
| I got this in three, all quite close countries -- though I
| should have got it in one from the kaolin-coated paper bit.
| throwaway6532 wrote:
| This has a similar interface to Worldle
| (https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/) which I've been playing a lot. I've
| long been a fan of the OEC and always use it when I get curious
| about what goes on in a country at a high level, so both of these
| things in concert will really help me improve my geography!
| desmondw wrote:
| I was also excited to add this, but unlike Worldle it doesn't
| support imperial units and is pretty unusable on mobile.
| Jedd wrote:
| > I was also excited to add this, but unlike Worldle it
| doesn't support imperial units ...
|
| I'd say that's a feature.
|
| It aligns with 98% of the world's countries, and 95% of the
| world's population.
| XCSme wrote:
| I don't understand how it works.
|
| EDIT: Nevermind, after reading some comments I got it, you are
| not supposed to click the big colored boxes.
| sdze wrote:
| I won at 2nd try. First Italy, then Sweden.
| bru wrote:
| Web browser is a different language than English (French). When I
| try to enter a country whose name isn't the same in English and
| French, I get a pop-up saying "Pays inconnu" (unknown country).
| Uptrenda wrote:
| How many boring wordle clones are you sheep going to upvote?
| Wordle sucks
| shawndrost wrote:
| I feel the need to brag that I guessed Sweden on the first try. I
| think that means the product is working!
| spamtarget wrote:
| One question per day? Really stupid...
| ducktective wrote:
| Nice!
| dna_polymerase wrote:
| Remove the "trade" theme. Put a random picture from Google Street
| View at the top and give geoguessr a run for their money.
| nicky0 wrote:
| No you
| mappu wrote:
| That's a quite good idea for another Wordle
| (/Worldle/Globle/...) clone, but i think it could be a separate
| project to this one.
| cyounkins wrote:
| I can't seem to scroll the country list! Firefox 98 on macOS
| 12.2.
| bee_rider wrote:
| I don't really understand what the 'share' button shows. The
| first 3 squares seem to be always green, but then the other two
| turn yellow or green... based on some sort of closeness or
| something?
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